Metadata: Court Bistriţa
Collection
- Country:
- Romania
- Holding institution:
- Romanian National Archives, Directorate of Bistriţa-Năsăud County
- Holding institution (official language):
- Arhivele Naţionale Române, Direcţia judeţeană Bistriţa-Năsăud
- Postal address:
- Gării Str. 3-5, Bistriţa 420139, judeţul Bistriţa-Năsăud, Romania
- Phone number:
- 0040-263-203-249
- Reference number:
- Fond 2
- Title:
- Court Bistriţa
- Title (official language):
- Judecătoria mixtă Bistriţa
- Creator/accumulator:
- Court Bistriţa
- Date(s):
- 1841/1953
- Language:
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Latin
- German
- Hungarian
- Extent:
- 21 linear metres (229 files)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
- This collection comprises material from the county court of Bistriţa. The court was responsible for cases of up to 300-500 forints (later 3,000 lei) in value. Its authority extended to civil and criminal cases. The finds includes records regarding the organisation and procedures of the court, authentication of documents, approval for fairs, administration of woods, real estate issues, registration of association and societies, cooperatives, orphans and cadastral issues. Jewish individuals and firms are involved in all the mentioned areas.
- Archival history:
- The collection was in the custody of the district court of Bistriţa and was taken over in 1952 by the local branch of the State Archives in Bistriţa. It was inventoried in 1953 and it is is now held at the Romanian National Archives, Directorate of Bistriţa-Năsăud County.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The district court of Bistriţa was established in 1841 and existed until 1953, when the judicial system was fundamentally reorganised by the new Communist regime. It was responsible for the entire district of Bistriţa. In 1871 it had three judges and five auxiliary clerks. Until 1918 it functioned under the Austro-Hungarian juridical system and in the interwar period under the Romanian system. Between 1940 and 1944 the Hungarian judicial system was reinstated, but after the Second World War it was again included in the Romanian justice network
- Access points: locations:
- Bistriţa
- Bistrița-Năsăud
- Subject terms:
- Legal matters
- Orphanages
- Real estate
- System of arrangement:
- The collection is arranged in chronological order.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories No. 163 and 167 of the Romanian National Archives, Directorate of Bistriţa-Năsăud County.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Romanian Institute for the Research of National Minorities
- Author of the description:
- Levente Tóth (archivist, Protestant Theological Institute Cluj-Napoca), Ladislau Gyémánt (emeritus professor Cluj-Napoca), 2017
